forgive me if I am wrong, but doesn't this all just seem like a childish prank? sending out emails telling people you will bust them for having CP, and using an official sounding letter from ASACP...just sounds like a prank...kind of like acting like the school principal and calling your buddies house and telling their mom they are suspended...
while it does suck, my inner youth giggled a little when I read the letter, just thinking about people freaking out that had no reason to
i agree, what was their motive for doing this? nothing financial, the results are that you scared the shit out of a bunch of people, not like fraud or a DDOS attack which may cost a company money and/or the perpetrators would get something out of it, ransom, fraud proceeds, etc
just sounds like somebody got angry at asacp
where did they get the emails from? ASACP? (asking with all due respect, trying to make the connection on how children were affected)
i agree, what was their motive for doing this? nothing financial,
You could make the same argument about slander and libel, but according to our laws, such actions can get you sued or put in jail. There doesn't have to be a financial loss in order to commit a felony.
Clearly, this attack was to discredit, embarrass, cause harm, etc to ASACP.org from someone who has a personal agenda and an axe to grind.
Wow, hey Dick Tracy, before someone points a finger at me, I do have the means and motivation, but lack the mean-spiritness that this prank would have taken. However, this does kinda remind me of my last run in with ASACP, when someone mysteriously hacked and deleted my entire Lightspeed4 database for "giggles".
I think you should find the time to file on them Steve. The tactics this organisation has used is gross, and some of you folks out there should know this attack was well deserved...
You know, Mark, this kind of reminds me of some of the comments that were thrown around after 9/11
an interesting tidbit of news that has relevance to the harm that this "prank" can cause:
mark kernes of avn.com attended the senate judiciary subcommittee last week that was focusing on the adult entertainment industry (which no one from the adult biz was allowed to testify), and he recorded the folllowing (this isn't an official quote, but what he transcribed):
"The expanded reach and pervasiveness of pornography also affects our families and our children. According to recent reports, one in five children ages 10 to 17 has received a sexual solicitation over the Internet, and nine out of 10 children ages 8 to 16 who have Internet access have viewed porn Websites usually in the course of looking up information for homework."
While this "bad email" is truly a wrong (and illegal) thing, there might be some good to come out of it in light of how congress is looking at the adult industry.
Given ASACP's mission, combined with Best Practices guidelines and efforts to assist law enforcement in reporting the CP websites, it can certainly do a greater good for the adult online industry by its existance.
I guess I missed something here . . .who said this was ASACP's mailing list?
I assumed if they used the server for a spoof that they implemented ASACP's mailing list in the process. Guess it does not work that way, goes to show ya what I know about this kinda thing.
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